ELT Calendar for August 2024

August 3rd (Saturday) 2024

Extensive Reading Summer Seminar
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Mintra Puripunyavanich (Chulalongkorn University Language Institute), Sakai Kunihide (Tokyo Denki Tsushin University). Call for presentations due June 30
Organization: Extensive Reading Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Online, Online Events (Online Event)

Critical Thinking in the Classroom 2024
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Call for presentations due June 7 (extended deadline)
Organization: Critical Thinking Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis

August 18th (Sunday) 2024

Teaching Mixed Level Conversation Classes without a Text
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Matt Winfield, Ark Foreign Language Academy
Organization: ETJ Hiroshima (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

August 19th (Monday) 2024

PROMS 2024: The 19th Pacific-Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (Pre-conference workshops)
Time: To be announced
Speaker: George Engelhard, Trevor Bond, Harris Shah Abd Hamid, Haniza Yan, Bambang Sumintono. Call for presentations open until May 30th
Organization: Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

August 20th (Tuesday) 2024

PROMS 2024: The 19th Pacific-Rim Objective Measurement Symposium
Time: To be announced
Speaker: George Engelhard, Trevor Bond, Harris Shah Abd Hamid, Haniza Yan, Bambang Sumintono. Call for presentations open until May 30th
Organization: Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

August 21st (Wednesday) 2024

PROMS 2024 (final day)
Time: To be announced
Speaker: George Engelhard, Trevor Bond, Harris Shah Abd Hamid, Haniza Yan, Bambang Sumintono. Call for presentations open until May 30th
Organization: Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

2024 PAAL (Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics) Conference
Time: To be announced
Speaker: Call for presentation proposals due February 16, 2024
Organization: Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics
Location: Seoul City, Seoul (South Korea)

August 22nd (Thursday) 2024

CULI, TERA Extensive Reading Foundation International Conference 2024: Promoting English reading in the Asian Context and Beyond
Time: 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Neil Anderson (BYU), Rob Waring (Extensive Reading Foundation), Janice Bland (Nord University) and Dumrong Adunyarittigun (Thammasat University). Call for proposals ends Feb 29
Organization: Extensive Reading Foundation
Location: Bangkok, Bangkok (Thailand)

August 23rd (Friday) 2024

2nd Annual PIE-on-Lake-Nojiri Conference
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Curtis Kelly, Kenn Gale, Others
Organization: Performance in Education Special Interest Group (formerly known as the Speech, Drama and Debate SIG), Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Shinanomachi City, Nagano Prefecture

August 25th (Sunday) 2024

Empowering Young Minds – Building Engagement, Confidence, and Connection in Language Learning
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Akemi Kitsuuchi, Manager, Milky Way Schools Julie Hwang, Senior Product Marketing Manager, National Geographic Learning Emily Donkin, Director, TIK International School
Organization: National Geographic Learning (Cengage Learning)
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

1) Issues Young Learners Face in Grade Schools 2) Use of Japanese Fairytales in English Classes
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Nicky Sekino
Organization: ETJ East Tokyo (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis

August 27th (Tuesday) 2024

ZPD in August
Time: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Networking event
Organization: JALT Zoom for Professional Development
Location: Online, Online Events (Online Event)